Research Article
Changing Land Use Patterns and Their Impacts on Wild Ungulates in Kimana Wetland Ecosystem, Kenya
Table 2
Correlations between land use changes in KWE.
| Land use type | Correlation | Cropland | Wetland | Settlement | Other lands | Forestland | Grassland | Woodland |
| Crop | Pearson correlation | 1 | −0.979** | 0.989** | 0.952* | −0.989** | −0.989** | −0.922* | sig. (2-tailed) | | 0.004 | 0.001 | 0.013 | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.026 |
| Wetland | Pearson correlation | −0.979** | 1 | −0.946* | −0.990** | 0.974** | 0.951* | 0.939* | sig. (2-tailed) | 0.004 | | 0.015 | 0.001 | 0.005 | 0.013 | 0.018 |
| Settlement | Pearson correlation | 0.989** | −0.946* | 1 | 0.903* | −0.986** | −0.980** | −0.918* | sig. (2-tailed) | 0.001 | 0.015 | | 0.036 | 0.002 | 0.004 | 0.028 |
| Other lands | Pearson correlation | 0.952* | −0.990** | 0.903* | 1 | −0.934* | −0.931* | −0.890* | sig. (2-tailed) | 0.013 | 0.001 | 0.036 | | 0.020 | 0.022 | 0.043 |
| Forestland | Pearson correlation | −0.989** | 0.974** | −0.986** | −0.934* | 1 | 0.959** | 0.967** | sig. (2-tailed) | 0.001 | 0.005 | 0.002 | 0.020 | | 0.010 | 0.007 |
| Grassland | Pearson correlation | −0.989** | 0.951* | −0.980** | −0.931* | 0.959** | 1 | 0.856 | sig. (2-tailed) | 0.001 | 0.013 | 0.004 | 0.022 | 0.010 | | 0.064 |
| Woodland | Pearson correlation | −0.922* | 0.939* | −0.918* | −0.890* | 0.967** | 0.856 | 1 | sig. (2-tailed) | 0.026 | 0.018 | 0.028 | 0.043 | 0.007 | 0.064 | |
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Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed). Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).
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